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Re: Cannot start Fedora 2.

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Subject: Re: Cannot start Fedora 2.
From: Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:42:35 +0100
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Soo Sip Boon wrote:

> when i want to start boot, my monitor go blank. i
> never success for any startup. I was tried to boot
> from rescue disk and used vim to do changes on
> etc\X11\Xorg.conf but seem the vim have problem to do
> edit. in the vim mode i cannot move the cursor up and
> down, delete things.

Can you not do Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get into text mode?
If you can't then you should edit /etc/inittab
to start in runlevel 3 rather than 5.
Then see if system-config-display will get your monitor working.

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Timothy Murphy  
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- Cannot start Fedora 2.
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